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Forms of Vertigo.

Vertigo is from the Latin word that
means to turn. 1t denotes an ailment
characterized by a sudden feeling OF
dizzines, and at times by actually falling.
Sometimes surrounding objects seem to
the person attacked to whirl around, OF
the floor or ground to rise up. The fact
that vertigo is often one of the earlier
symptoms of apoplexy frequently fills the
person with terror, lest that deadly dis.
ease may be impending. But in the ma
iority of cases it has no such significance,
not even as indicating tendency.
One form of vertigo, very persistent
form, is due to irritation of certain nerves
within the inmost chamber of the ear,
the so-called labyrinth. This is what
Dean Swift suffered from so long, and, to
the physicians of this day, so unac
countably. One of its symptoms is tenn.
porary deafness. This distinguishes ii
from all other forms.
Another form connects itself mainly
with the eye. fthis kind is the feeling
of giddiness which some people have
when, being on a train at rest, another
train slowly passing decei es them into
the idea that it is their own train which
has begun to move. The giddiness occurs
at the moment when the false and true
sensations become confused together.
In the case of the near-sighted the in
ternal muscles of the eye, often being
unduly strained in their efforts to con.
verge the eyes sufficiently for the sight
of near objects, suddenly give way.
when the eyebals turn out and let the
letters run into each other. This is ac-
companied with feeling of giddiness,
eyeache, headache and sometimes nausea.
A third form connects itself with some
slight disorder of the stomach, and occurs
most often when the stomach is empty.
There is sudden swimming in the head,
objects seem to revolve, and the person
totters and perhaps falls.
A fourth form is purely of nervous
origin, and is due to nervous exhaustion.
1t may be caused by intellectual over
strain, long g-continued anxiety. physical
exccsses, or the immoderate use of to.
bacco, alcohol or tea. Elevated posi-.
tions may bring on an attack. 1trarely
results in actual falling, but oftcner in
the feeling of being about to fall.-1M
Earth.
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Gaining or Losing q Day.

In sailing round the world eastward
the days are each a little less than
twenty-four hours, according to the speed
of the ship, as the sun is met every
morning a little earlier. These little diff
ferences added together will amount in
the course of the circumnavigation to
twenty-four hours, giving the sailors an
extra day, not in Imagination, but in
sober truth, as they will have actually
eaten an extra days food and consumed
an extra days grog. On the other hand,
in sailing westward, the SUN is overtaken
little each day, and so each day is
rather longer than twenty-four hours,
and clocks and watches are found to be
too fast. This also will amount, in sail
ing round to the starting point again. te
one whole day, by which the reckoning
has fallen in arrear. The eastern ship,
then, has gained day and the western
ship has lost one, leading to this apparent
paradox, that the former ship has clear
gain of two whole days over the latter,
supposing them to have started and re-
turned together. Chambers's Journal.
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Photographing Wheels in Motion.

Instantaneous photography has just
been employed by Mr.. $. W. Gardner TO
demonstrate by optical proof the tact
that the upper part of the wheel OF 4 a
vehicle in motion travels more quickly
than its lower part. Mr.. Gardner has
taken an omnibus wheel en- route, and IN
this photograph while the lower ends OF
the spokcs Immediately adjacent to the
ground are not perceptibly unsharpcneo
by the motion, the tops OF the upper
spokes show an angular motion corre- I
spending to about ten degrees. Inc
photograph also most successfully eH.
presses the fact that the wheel II
presents is in rapid motion. lnstan-
taneous photography, at the rate 1t IS
going on, will soon have no moro worlds
20 conquer.-London Figaro.
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About Horses.

Reject horse with big, coarse head;
do not look second time at horse
with either a long slack back or with
hollow back.
Where one horse dies from ovcrwork
in this country twenty die from exhaus-
ton or want of proper treatment. A
sound horse will stand wonderful
amount of work if he has the right kind
of care while at it.
A farmer who has good horse or two
to turn into money every year is gener-
ally one of class Of men who are con-
sidered thrifty and frugal. There IS
more clear money in raising good horses,
if it is done jud.ciously, than in any
other kind of live stock.
A correspondent of the London Lire-
Stock Journal asserts that some horses
cannot we'll do certain kinds of work
which Others can, owing to different
spinal development. lie says ifthe back
arches downward the horse cannot carry
heavy weight, while if it ar}hes upward
he cannot pull heavily. For this reason
contractors select horses higher at their
withers than at their hips. ''High-back
horses cannot back load; whereas
horse with low back can back any rea-
sonable weight"
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A Wonderful Memory.

The handsome colored man who at
tends the door of the dining-room at the
Palmer house, possesses the remarkf bic
faculty of never losing a hat intrusted
to his charge. Sometimes three or four
hundred men dine at once in the big
room. The racks will be piled thick
with hats, yet each man, as he emcrSes.
finds the polite servitor dusting oil his
proper tile and no other. A bet was
made the other day by two drummers
that they could confuse him. They put
private marks on their hats, which was
precisely alike in style, color, and size.
when they rose from dinner their hats
were handed to them with Chesterfield
dian bow. ''How do you manage it2"
he was asked. II dunno. l jes' kinder
sees each gemman's head in his hat
Chicaqo Mcns.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The first iron ore to be dis covered in
this country was found in Virginia in
l715.
Books in their present form were in
vented by Attalus, King of Pergamus,
in Ss7.
The cost to the principals in a suit
over a rooster, in the Bergen County On.
j. courts, has reached $500.
The most remarkable echo known is
that in the castle of Simonetta. two
miles from Milan. 1t reports the sound
of pistol sixty times.
A horse that recently foil on and
killed an Indian near Garfield, Idaho,
was made the subject of barbecue by
the surviving relatives of the departed
redskin.
Forty-five years ago there was not a
postage stamp in the United States.
During the last twelve months 1,968,-
1000 stamps were utilized by people
of this country.
During the recent dry weather in
Mount Pleasant, Wis, the hub of a
heavy wagon struck a gate post, and the
friction was so great that it set fire to
the post. The gate was burned up, and
also the grass for several yards in the
vicinity.
1t is curious feature of the Aztec
houses which still exist in New Mexico
that the rooms have no windows, save
two little square port holes, and there
are no doors on the inside opening from
room to room. Many rooms are sealed
up for some unknown reason.
The floating island on Lake Derwent-
water, England, has again made its ap-
pearance. 1t came to the surface Of the
water year or two ago near Lodore
after complete submersion for nearly
three years. The cause of the phenomenon
has never been satisfactorily explained.
James Williamson, of Toronto, Ohio,
captured a live crow in his cornfeld.
While carrying it home he was attacked
by hundreds of other crows. He first
tried to run away; then he made vigor-
Gus attempt to defend himself with 9
club; next he sought shelter in shed,
where the besieging crows kept him
prlSOQer IOr WOTc Lidu Ill uOuT.
The Justices CT the Supreme Court Of
the United States now wear plain black
robes. In the beginning of the century
the robes had scarlet facing, because
once Chief Justice John Jay borrowed
the robe of the Chancellor of New York,
which was 80 faced, and all the other
Justices followed the style. In 1908,
however, some one asserted that the red
trimming was too English, and it was
discarded, and the plain black has been
used ever since.
A curious button was made about
century ago and worn by the English
dandies of the period. 1t consisted Of
polished brass, and was ruled with lines
so fine as to be almost microscopic. The
roughness of the surface thus obtained
broke the reflection of the light falling
on tand gave it prismatic colors. The
beauty of mother of pearl and its rides
cent brilliancy are believed to be pro-
duced by three plates overlapping each
other unevenly, and thus they disperse
the light as they reflect it.
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Greeley and His Boots.

Horace Greeley was the most innocent
old chap that ever travelled alone, says
New York correspondent. He never
knew exactly how to go to work to reg
lister, but waited for the clerk to direct
him. Once, when he was at the Fifth
Avenue, he was seen prawling about the
corridor in his stocking feet just before
daylight, pecring into corners and ap-
parently searching for something. The
clerk asked him what he was looking
for, and he said he was after his boots.
lie had left them outside his door, and
they had disappeared. Of course, the
porter had taken them to polish them,
but Horace did not understand that.
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The Coming Man.

The theory has been advanced that the
coming man will be both hairless and
toothless. AS proof of this it is pointed
out that bald heads and bare gums
increase with advancing civilization,
while savages and barbarians retain both
their hair and teeth as long as they live.
A native of Africa who was brought to
this country full-grown man in 1907
died in Georgia the other day, certainly
after having attained the age of 100
years. His teeth were in fine condition,
and he had not lost one of them. --Ns,o
York Kor!d.
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before they churn it, he was aston
ished to hear that the Yorkshire custom
was only to churn once week: but ne
urged them to churn every third day.
They should keep each skimming OF the
milk separate until about two hours be-
fore they put it into the churn. He ad.
vocated every farmer being possessed OF
a thermometer, which could be purchased
for one shilling, which he called a labor
saving machine, because it told them eX-
actly the temperature at which to churn.
Sixty degrees temperature was about the
heat at which the cream should be
churned. lie said that tive-sixths of the
bad butter made at the present day was
due to farmers not knowing when to stop
churning.
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THE HOME DOCTOR.
Too Much Bathing Bad.

DR.. Titus Munson Coan, in an article
on "The Curative Uses of Water" in
Ha,per's, says regarding bathing: ''There
are bath fanatics who ignorantly think
that life without an epidermis is the only
desirable form of existence. Their rapt-
ures of saponiication and of scrubbing
are all very we'll as luxury, though the
inunctions of the Roman therme were
better, because the oil used after the bath
supplied some protection to the abraded
skin. But the fury of rubbing is only
for the strong, and even the strong, il
they practice their rites in a malarious
country, have been observed to sicken
sooner than those who have contented
themselves with cleansing, and have not
gone on to excoriation."
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Exploration ut the South Pole.

The Antarctic committee appointed by
the Royal Society of Victoria and the
Royal Geographical Society of Australia
have memorialized the Premier OF
Victoria on the propriety of stimulating
Antarctic research by the offer of bonuses.
They recommend that sum of e1O, 600
be placed on the estimates for this
purpose, and that tenders be solicited
from the shipowners for the performance
of services in connection with Antarctic
exploration. Shipowners whose tenders
shall be accepted must provide free
accommodations for two scientific gentle.
men, as we'll as reserve second cabin as
instrument room and office. Each
master of ship must also afford every
facility for observing natural phenomena.
Masters will receive special bonuses for
every 100 tons of oil from fish caught
south of 60 degrees S.
The special services desired area fly
ing survey of any coast lines lying with
in the Antarctic circle, and not laid down
upon the admiralty charts; and the dis
covery of new water ways leading to-
ward the South Pole, and of harbors
suitable for wintcring in. Facilities are
to be offered for the study of meteor
ology, oceanography, terrestrial magnet.
ism. natural history aud geology. Special
bonuses will be given for passing seventy
degrees S., and also for establishing on
shore temporary observing camp. Two
ships are required, and both must be in
Port Phillip Bay and ready to start on
October Is next, in the Southern spring.
The Premier of Victoria has promised to
place $40, 900 on the next estimates for
the above purposes, on condition that
the other colonies will join in the enter
prise, so that it is hoped strong impetus
will be given to Antarctic exploration.-
English Mechanic.
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Making Cream Churn Easily.

A lady friend, an experienced and snc-
cessful butter maker, thus explains how
she makes the butter come quickly as
cold weather approaches: She keeps
the cream crock in the cellar as cool as
possible, and as the natural result it is
too cool for good butter making, If the
cream is directly heated over the fire it
y apt to make soft butter, as every
housewife knows. What she does is to
take a quart or little more of sweet
milk, heat it quickly over the fire, and
then mix it with the cream already in the
churn, adding enough to bring it up to
the right temperature. The butter comes
very quickly by this method, and is not
made soft late in the season. 1t is not a
plan so we'll adapted to butter making
in hot weather, for then the cream, unless
kept on ice, usually needs no warming.
Some use hot water instead of milk, but
the advantages of the latter is that the
warm, sweet milk imparts better flavor
to the butter and greatly improves the
buttermilk, besides, of course, making
more of it.
There is probably only very small in
crease of butter that comes directly from
the heated sweet milk. Possibly this
furnishes no butter; but it does separate
the butter particles more perfectly from
the cream than is possible otherwise.
The Weld of cream and butter from milk
should under most circumstances natu-
rally increase in proportion to the milk
as the amount of the butter is lessened.
A farrow cow five or six months after
calvinp gives less but richer milk than
she does at first. But what avails this
10 the butter maker, if he or she cannot
separate the butter from the cream in
which it is enclosed. Adding warm
sweet milk seems to entirely remove this
difficulty, and has many other incidental
advantages. Cultiuator.
Cleanliness and Order in the Dairy.
Canon Bagot, an English authority in
Dairying, seems to be digging into some
musty practices in the British Isles. In
a recent lecture on "Dairy Farming" he
states that it was not the COW which pro-
duced the milk alone, but the food and
water which they put into her, for the
animal WIS only tlC ulaCHliie "AiNh Pio-
duced the milk and cream. He impressed
upon his audience the necessity there was
for treating their COWS with gentleness,
as in case a dairymaid or any one else
ili-trcatcd cow, then she would not let
down her milk, and evil results would
follow. A cow must be milked with
quickncss, and no time ought to be lost
in getting the milk strained into the
settling pans. Upon the great necessity
for cleanliness, that the milk might pro-
ducc the greatest quantity of good cream,
he said milk ought to be shallow in sum-
mcr and deep in winter in the pans.
But if they allowed their cream to
remain too long on the milk it became
sour, and this effectually stopped the
farmer obtaining good price ior his but
ter. He believed that a great many
samples of butter shown at the recent
country show at York, were bad solely
owing to the cream not having been
taken from the milk until it had begun
to decompose. Replying to the question,
bow long should they keep their cream
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Rat-Proof Corn Cribs.

N. J. Shephesd writes to the Prairie
Farmer that after he had been unable to
exclude rats from his corn crib by ordi-
nary means, he lined it with hemlock
plank six inches wide, and covered the
floor and ceiling with the same material,
placing the plank about one-fourth of an
inch apart. Not rat has found its way
into the crib since. Mice, however,
have found entrlnce; they seem able to
gnaw hemlock, while rats cannot. To
exclude these he would lay the floor with
plank from four to six inches wide, with
inch spaces between them to admit ven
tilation for the corn. and then cover the
whole with woven wire with meshes
which mice cannot pass. Nail on the
inside of the studs woven wire strong
enough to resist the pressure Of the corn,
and with meshes to exclude mice. Then
nail woven wire on the cross pieces over
head. The floor wire and that overhead
need not be very heavy. Such crib
will shut out both rats and mice, and let
in more air than any other. Its extra
cost will be repaid in a few years in
clean, sound, we'll dried and unnibbled
corn.
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A Sad Farewell.

$50 you go to southern climate
To avoid the winter cold;
wish that were with you,
We could have good times untold.
"You bachelors are foot-loose,
And free to come and go;
With men like me it's different,
We're tied to home you know.
"My health1-Oh, am never
Afraid Of frost and snow;
My lovely wife will make it
Quite warm for me, you know"
-Merchdnt- Traveller.
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HUMILITY.

/ plucked the weeds forth, left and right,
To make an open space
About wind-sown blossom bright,
With uplift wondering face.
/" Why sparest me, and them dost slay"
The darling blossom sighed;
Nor knew itself more worth than they
That fell in rank-blown pride.
Edith M Thomas, in Independent.
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How to Get Rid of Canada Thistles.

How to Get Rid of Canada Thistles.
Several correspondents make the old
query of how to get rid of Canada thistles.
The only way that has met with general
success is to prevent the tops from grow
ing until the roots die of exhaustion, or
in other words, until the plant dies from
want of air and light The reason why
the Canada thistle is so hard to kill out is
because the roots are not only perennial
but they spread by underground root
stocks, i. e., stems that branch off un-
der ground and produce new plants.
These perennial roots and root-stocks are
several inches below the depth of the
ordinary furrow cut, and are not usually
turned up in stirring or breaking the
ground. One plowing merely puts the
land in nice tilth for them to come
up and make a good crop of vigorous
shoots, as with an asparagus bed. To
kill them the land must be continuously
plowed or the thistles otherwise cut oil
for one, two or three summers. Enough
time should not clapsc between the
blowing to allow the thistles to get up
and get their breath, so to speak. In
hoed crops they are sometimes killed
out by giving constant attention. o.
servation leads to the belief that the
seeds are very uncertain if grown far
North. Many isolated patches are grown
in Chicago on vacant lots and along un:
improved streets. These seem to spread
rather slowly by the underground root
stocks, but their absence in adjoining
lots and streets as favorably situated in
dicates that the seeds are not perfect
Prairie Farmer.
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wv mere Is NtpIdlu
sHe's dead, sir. He was killed that
day, if he was alive he would tell you
so."
"Well, but how did you get home, and
how was it that the conscript cavalry got
you2"
"Well. I'll tell you. You see, when I
got to Ringgold they put me on the cars
and sent me along with the other
wounded to Atlanta, and from there they
sent me to Montgomery, and as we was
passing Notasulga I thought I'd just
get off and get out home. 1t was only
five miles, and so I got off; the boys
helped me, and Mr.. Minis sent me out
home in his buggy"
"And when you got we'll why didn't
you como back"
"Well, was a-coming, and I went to
Montgomery, and Major Calhoun give
me transportation back, and come on
back as far as Notasuga, and only
stopped a day, to run out home to get
a coat my mamma was a-making me,
and poke of rations she was cooking
for me. and that very same night the
cavalry come and arrested me and tried
ME. and brought me back, without even
letting me get my vittlcs nor my coat. !"
"Wcll. is that all"
eyes, sir, all as 1 knows; only if
CAPTAIN Rich hadn't a got killed, l
wouldn't a been in this fix"
"You say Major Calhoun gave you
transportation from Montgomery back to
the army"
eyes, sir. he did"
"Whcre is itl"
'Its at home in my 'tother britches'
pocket. If you'll write to mamma, she
will send it to you-'
"No, never mind, that will do Gentle
men, have you any questions to ask2"
"No."
The prisoner was marched back to the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-18

Mr.. Leander Lewis, who has been danger
ously sick is now recov ering.
Hon. Fred E. Richards, Bank Examiner,
and wife, have taken rooms for the winter at
the Falmouth Hotel, Portland.
John w. Phinney, who for several years
was very efficient assistant messenger in
the House of Representatives, is in the city
for few days visiting friends,
Clarence Stetson and wife have taken
rooms at the Augusta House. Mr.. Stetson
is the Lewiston Journal representative and
will make this City his headquarters.
The marriage OF Hon. WillamW. Thomas,
Jr., ex-Mnister to Sweden, to beautiful
and highly talented Swedish girl is aunoun-
ced Mr.. Thomas will bring his bride to
Portland.
The pupils and friends of DIR. C. C.
Rounds, formerly principal of the Farming
ton Normal School, are to give him COM
Elementary dinner in Portland Thanksgiving
week. DR.. Rounds is principal Of the Ply
mouth, n. Il. Normal School.
At the Augusta House: Lieut., z, E. New
comb, J. Il. Rumery, j. d. Young, d. T.
Lowering, E. S. Wade, Al. Bibber, j. Nc
Diamd, Frank Mallock c. Corthel, w. S.
Hume, Fred A. Holmes, f astport; T. j.
Dillon, Bath; w. II. Dewsuap, Wollaston,
Mass
Hon. Sumner J Chadbourne, Deputy
Secretary of State, who has been enjoying
duck shooting at Kezar Pond, in Fryeburg
Tor the past ten days, has returned to the city
much improved in health. Mr.. Chadbourne
reports that ducks are not so plenty there as
be has found them in former years, although
the party of which he was mem er met
with very good success. Col. f. c. Earring
ton of Portland accompanied Mr. Chadbourne
on the trip.